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I did a search for the word “conscience” here on CAF. I was surprised that zero, zilch, nada results returned.
Well, maybe my Internet connection or CAF or my browser is broken for now, but still I remember so few topics about conscience here. And I actually was seriously disturbed. The Catechism writes this about conscience:
CCC 1776 “Deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon himself but which he must obey. Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what is good and to avoid evil, sounds in his heart at the right moment. . . . For man has in his heart a law inscribed by God. . . . His conscience is man’s most secret core and his sanctuary. There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths.”
There man is alone with God whose voice echoes in his debts… Not inspirations, not visions, not even clergy of the Catholic Church, but a well formed, certain conscience is the surest way to know what God’s will is in each moment of our lives.
CCC 1790 A human being must always obey the certain judgment of his conscience. If he were deliberately to act against it, he would condemn himself.
CCC 1778 … Conscience is a law of the mind; yet [Christians] would not grant that it is nothing more; I mean that it was not a dictate, nor conveyed the notion of responsibility, of duty, of a threat and a promise. . . . [Conscience] is a messenger of him, who, both in nature and in grace, speaks to us behind a veil, and teaches and rules us by his representatives. Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
But not only these, but since man’s conscience is his “most secret core and his sanctuary”, if we could recognize where in our heart conscience comes from, then if we can return to this wellspring of conscience to pray, then we are sure God hears us. This is one very consoling thought that I have always treasured.
Maybe that is one main reason for all of these neurotic posts about sin here in CAF, we have not emphasized the conscience well enough.
A Clarification on the Meaning of ‘Conscience’
I did a search for the word “conscience” here on CAF. I was surprised that zero, zilch, nada results returned.
Well, maybe my Internet connection or CAF or my browser is broken for now, but still I remember so few topics about conscience here. And I actually was seriously disturbed. The Catechism writes this about conscience:
CCC 1776 “Deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon himself but which he must obey. Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what is good and to avoid evil, sounds in his heart at the right moment. . . . For man has in his heart a law inscribed by God. . . . His conscience is man’s most secret core and his sanctuary. There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths.”
There man is alone with God whose voice echoes in his debts… Not inspirations, not visions, not even clergy of the Catholic Church, but a well formed, certain conscience is the surest way to know what God’s will is in each moment of our lives.
CCC 1790 A human being must always obey the certain judgment of his conscience. If he were deliberately to act against it, he would condemn himself.
CCC 1778 … Conscience is a law of the mind; yet [Christians] would not grant that it is nothing more; I mean that it was not a dictate, nor conveyed the notion of responsibility, of duty, of a threat and a promise. . . . [Conscience] is a messenger of him, who, both in nature and in grace, speaks to us behind a veil, and teaches and rules us by his representatives. Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
But not only these, but since man’s conscience is his “most secret core and his sanctuary”, if we could recognize where in our heart conscience comes from, then if we can return to this wellspring of conscience to pray, then we are sure God hears us. This is one very consoling thought that I have always treasured.
Maybe that is one main reason for all of these neurotic posts about sin here in CAF, we have not emphasized the conscience well enough.
A Clarification on the Meaning of ‘Conscience’
